Feature: Add knowledge distillation support #2595
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Knowledge distillation is one of the most effective techniques for achieving state-of-the-art results in model pre-training and finetuning. It has become a standard component in nearly every competitive paper and effectively sets the gold standard for top-tier performance.
Additionally, when training with knowledge distillation, the sensitivity to training parameters and the reliance on training tricks is significantly reduced.
This pull request adds simple support for training with knowledge distillation on ImageNet.
The proposed implementation is straightforward, clean, and robust, building on the methodology from https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03475, and the reference implementation at: https://github.com/Alibaba-MIIL/Solving_ImageNet